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Racist or Junk Peddlers? Newspaper depicts Obama Before and After Photo as Sanford and Son
The newspaper should have just left the Obama ‘before and after photo blank’ but had to use some depiction I guess. While many are calling the article ‘racist’ I wonder if the motivation was quite different. My first thought wasn’t the color of the skin of the parties… It was that both Obama and Sanford and Son were in the Junk Business. Remember, one mans junk is another mans treasure. Looking at it from that perspective, the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Mainstream media, Obama
Live updates on Health Care Vote Count
So here’s where we stand on the votes, from my best attempt at a count. There are 16 undecided votes still out there, all of them Democrats. I’ve listed them below. It looks like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is at 210 and needs six out of 16 votes to get to 216. Here are her targets. The dozen previous yes votes are all pro-lifers. PREVIOUS NO VOTES BRIAN BAIRD (WA), RICK BOUCHER (VA), LINCOLN DAVIS … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics
Health Care Reform: Only 23 Percent Stongly support Obamacare
Democrats in Congress are vowing to pass their national health care plan with a vote in the House possible by the end of this week. But most voters still oppose the plan the same way they have for months. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 43% favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, while 53% oppose it. Those findings include 23% who Strongly Favor the plan and 46% … Read entire article »
Filed under: Poll, Rasmussen, health care reform
Stupak 12 under such pressure could be down to 10
Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics
How Much Damage Could a Yes Vote on Health Care Inflict on Dems?
Republican polling firm The Tarrance Group, in conjunction with the Start Over! Coalition (which appears to be an anti-ObamaCare group) has commissioned polling for the districts of eleven Democrats thought to be potential flippers on the final vote on health care reform. The results for the main question, “do you favor or oppose the health care reform legislation being proposed by President Obama and the Democrats in Congress” … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics, health care reform
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